Fall is tuba time at the University of Oregon

Thursday

Oct 24, 2013 at 12:01 AM

It’s something-for-everyone week at the University of Oregon’s School of Music and Dance, from the “SpookTastic” concert for kids and adults at 6:30 p.m. Monday to a concert by the world’s only full-time tuba soloist, Norwegian musician Øystein Baadsvik on Sunday.

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The school and its Beall Concert Hall are in the Frohnmayer Music Building at 961 E. 18th Ave. For a complete calendar of events, call 541-346-5678 or go online to music.uoregon.edu .

THEME Colloquium

3:15 p.m. Friday

Collier House

1170 E. 13th Ave.

Two free public lectures are on tap for this week’s colloquium, including Roger Mathew Grant’s, “What Was the 18th Century Alla Breve?” and Wing Lau’s “The Expressive Role of Meter Changes in Brahms’ Lieder.”

Grant’s will discuss changing concepts in the aesthetics and music theory of the Enlightenment. His book on the subject will be published in July by Oxford University Press.

Lau will explore the psychology behind the rate, motion and emotion of Brahms’ compositions.

Interpreting the works of Michael Fiday and David Crumb

8 p.m. Saturday

Beall Concert Hall

The music of composers Michael Fiday and David Crumb will be performed by faculty and guest artists, including pianist Marcantonio Barone. Fiday is on the faculty at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and Crumb is on the composition faculty at the UO.

Tickets are $10 general admission, $8 for students and senior citizens, at the door or in advance at 541-346-4363.

Oregon Wind Ensemble

3 p.m. Sunday

Beall Concert Hall

Music of celebration is the theme for the winds concert, conducted by Rodney Dorsey.

The program includes Daniel Godfrey’s “Jig,” Gustav Holst’s First Suite in E-flat and Vincent Persichetti’s “O Cool Is the Valley.”

Also planned are two military pieces: “Ungrounded Base,” commissioned by the U.S. Air Force Band from Kathryn Salfelder, and “La Fiesta Mexicana,” written by H. Owen Reed in 1954 for the U.S. Marine Band.

Tickets are $7 general admission, $5 for students and senior citizens.

Tuba soloist Øystein Baadsvik

7:30 p.m. Sunday

Beall Concert Hall

Billed as the world’s only tuba virtuoso whose career is exclusively as a soloist, Øystein Baadsvik of Norway will play both classical and popular works.

Baadsvik’s international career began 20 years ago, when he won two prizes at the prestigious Concours International d’Exécution Musicale in Geneva. He has premiered more than 40 solo works for tuba by composers from the United States, Russia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

Tickets are $10 general admission, $8 for students and senior citizens.

“New Music for New Year”

8 p.m. Tuesday

Beall Concert Hall

“New Music for New Year” is the theme of a concert premiering new music by UO graduate composers, presented by themselves and other performers of the UO School of Music and Dance.

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